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Telehealth in lockdown meant 7 million fewer chances to transmit the coronavirus

  • Written by Centaine Snoswell, Research Fellow Health Economics, The University of Queensland
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The expansion of telehealth services was a deliberate strategy to help reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission between practitioners and patients, so is it working?

According to our analysis, the answer is that telehealth is indeed reducing the risk. Since March 2020, more than 7 million MBS-funded telehealth consultations have...

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